As a Canadian, I'm so disgusted and embarrassed. Disgusted by what I've seen here in your post, about what's happened in our country and embarrassed because I follow the news in Canada and was completely mislead by the headline, so I didn't know this happened on Friday, until SUNDAY. The only reason I had a hint it was more than an anti-NATO protest was today when I saw headlines about a coffee shop being closed down (which includes a cafe inside the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal) because the franchisee was seen in videos uttering hate speech and the Nazi salute. Likely the same woman you're showing a picture of here. So, still we're not seeing reporting about the instigating incident, just sidebar stories after the fact.
And, don't even get me started about our Prime Minister. So embarrassing.
I'm on the west coast (left coast). I'm keeping my fingers crossed the violence from Montreal doesn't spread here. We may be too polite to break shit where I am, but not too polite not to say stupid things. Thanks again for sharing your insight. (And the food at your friend's restaurant looks amazing. Glad you got to enjoy an evening out.)
I left legacy media in 2020 and never looked back. In Canada, the CBC, our taxpayer-funded broadcaster--to the tune of $1.4B (yes, billion!) annually--repetitively recycles tropes about our country's implicit bias, racism, homophobia and transphobia. Almost every story inevitably comes down to identity. Not only is it hyperbole, but it is utterly boring. Substack and X are my go-to's for news, culture and current events. I look forward to witnessing the complete collapse of the "lamestream" media as well as the elite universities--of which I'm a graduate.
I would like to share my experience being married to someone who works for our local Jewish Federation and spends untold hours giving back to our community. The work has always been hectic and stressful but since October 7th, it is obscene! Security concerns take up an inordinate amount of precious time and brainpower and the costs to keep our community safe have gone from 7K/monthly to $100K a month. Instead of attacking the dedicated people devoted to supporting and safeguarding our Jewish community and institutions (as well as funding a myriad of social service projects in Israel), keep shining a light on the real culprits here: the millions of deranged people across the globe who are intent on destroying the Jewish homeland, its inhabitants and Jews of all over the world.
Thanks. That may be true of your husband and many thanks to him. But my criticism is justified. These orgs need to be held to account and the top tiers shouldn’t be guzzling up so much crucial funding. The orgs are failing us on so many urgent areas of need.
As I Canadian, I will die for Canada. I will die for Canadian values and ideals. For freedom, human rights, the women's rights we have here in Canada, all of it. It is a hill worth dying on. As the other half of my family is American, and I know Americans have the same values and ideals and celebrate freedom as we do, I know they will die for the same thing and rightly so. We are not the Middle East and never will be, no matter how hard the lunatic left-wing Islamists try to slide (or should I say ooze) into our society.
Tonight in Melbourne we are expecting a ‘protest’ outside of a synagogue in a mainly Jewish area. You can bet your bottom dollar that they will all wear keffiyehs and of course masks, the latter because they want to stand up for their principles. ( not) It’s time the West banned masks from all protests.And hey, what about requiring permits? And hey, what about paying for the police presence? And hey, what about arresting anyone who makes a Nazi salute, or chants the usual rubbish? Or is that OK cos it’s ’free speech’? And hey, all you non Jews out there like me, let’s call this out again and again.
I think about my parents of the Great Generation who sacrificed so much to preserve our freedom. My father was a Canadian bomber pilot with 30 missions in the RAF early in the war and mother was in the WAF and lived through the Blitz. So glad they don't see what Canada and Britain have become at least for now.
Just in time tonight. I got off twitter and had a major panic attack. Anti-Semitism seems to be everywhere I turn. It was the worst X experience and I went into total panic. I saw Ezra getting arrested, saw some evil Australian call someone a dirty Jew, saw more hate all over and my body gave out. I also saw Ritchie Torres and Douglas Murray which is awesome but it wasn’t enough. The Rabbi, the locksmith in Tennessee. The vile celebrities like Ruffalo and Eric Clapton had shit to say today. You came just in the nick of time. My goyim wife is rubbing my arm as I read her your article. This is just to much. I love how me, the crazy Trump supporter pays for your content and follows and adores Brianna Woo. But I’m the garbage. What the fuck. I need serious drugs or I need to find these “UN Protests” and kick some peoples asses. I’m losing it Eve.
I pressed publish before I caught the story about the Israeli locksmith in Memphis who was shot dead and whose murder is being investigated as a hate crime; a story that is nowhere on American MSM, only reported by Israeli media.
It is happening and we have Israel and we have a new administration that I believe has Israel’s best interests at heart. And if it doesn’t we have Israel. And to Israel we will go, where our IDF will protect us. And the world don’t get to tell us how to do that any more.
Be strong. I’m glad you have your wife to comfort you. Hug x
I feel I’m being crushed by this daily. It’s not just what is happening; it’s that good people don’t believe its happening or the full extent of it because they trust the mainstream media and truly don’t believe they could possibly be as insanely biased as they are.
Yes most are and I don’t think it does us any favors to suggest otherwise.. most people are operating based on the information available and unfortunately real bad guys have captured the narrative and are manipulating the good intentions of well meaning people.
Many are still living under the delusion that the mainstream media is not biased and can’t comprehend the layers of lies and distortions that are operating when talking about Israel.. and other progressive darlings, and many older liberals don’t see what’s happening in progressive communities because they don’t have direct contact with it socially or institutionally and can’t comprehend that it is not the same democratic party and media environment that we had in the 80s and 90s. My elderly parents love and support israel but still regurgitate lies they’re hearing on msn et al. They adore ‘the view’ and and are unable to recognize what’s going on.
Does a good person refuse to engage in discussion with someone they purport to love and refuse to acknowledge the humanity in those they disagree with? I’m not sure good people behave this way.
I feel this way, too, with my best friend. She says she's informed but she only listens to anti Israel Amy Goodman's Democracy Now. She doesn't show compassion towards me, doesn't want to SEE me as her hurting Jewish best friend. After the six hostages were murdered in Rafa my Jewish community group held a vigil and I invited her to come. She didn't. She didn't even reply to my text. She couldn't see through her beliefs to come support me in my hurt. Utter disconnect. I am distancing myself from her but that doesn't feel good either.
“I believe that we have been running at an abyss via the civil liberties discourse and the “human rights” dialogue, and that the ensuing results will be the opposite of what the groupthink intends; that our liberties are taken from us by powers that be. We have set up our once liberal democracies as honey pots for totalitarian demagogues, such as the ones who want to establish a global caliphate.”— The American people have spoken and it is time to run the other direction…. And fight back hard…
I'm sorry, "faggot Zio bitch" is meant as a pejorative? You should wear it as a badge of honor. Start a faggot Zio bitch fashion line.
Back in 1981, Jewish, British-Canadian controversialist Barbara Amiel wanted to call her memoir "Fascist Bitch!", but the publicists talked her down to the more anodyne "Confessions." If leftists are going to abuse words as cudgels so they lose all meaning, you might as well own them and whack them right back!
The Sinwar cosplayer in Toronto coupled with the Nazi saluting foul mouthed barrista in Montreal are truly jump the shark events that should shake the normies in both those cities out of their doldrums. But then most of our media are currently downplaying this so we'll see. Thank you Eve Barlow for all of your work. And please excuse my bad English.
People don’t know this is happening because the MSM has demonized X to the extent that people trash it without ever looking at it. And now that Elon is on Trump’s team, even more. I tell people to move to X and they refuse.
I personally despise Elon Musk and have every reason to want to leave a platform that has profited from hate speech and algorithmic manipulation towards me, but I don't because I believe it's the one place with the reach it has in which speech is not being suppressed.
Anyone who has spent any amount of time around a Chabad Rabbi knows that they are essentially the human equivalent of unicorns: they are purely good and innocent and exist for the sole purpose of doing and being goodness. Chabad Rabbis are called shaliah, they are emissaries of G-d on earth. They are here only to bring Light into the world. There is fury among the Angels at the evil of this.
Eve's latest gem touches on so many issues and themes I was hesitant to comment other than to hit "Like" and enjoy my Monday morning coffee. I also enjoy and find encouragement in the many intelligent and supportive comments Eve receives on Blacklisted. So in that vein and perhaps to add a different sort of comment on a topic not directly addressed by Eve but tangential to her comment about identity politics and how it pervades the art and entertainment world, same is true for women's sports. This topic is close to me because one of my nieces residing in California is a competitive college volleyball athlete. There is a reason why men never complain when a transman attempts to compete with men, if it happens at all. We never hear of a transman, born a biological woman, competing against men in a swimming event, volleyball, basketball, or any sport. So why is it always women who complain about a transwoman, born a biological man, entering their space. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the reason isn’t because men are more tolerant of diversity or of trans athletes. The reason is so obvious it doesn’t need explanation.
Once you see, you cannot unsee. And then nothing looks the same ever again. And that is why it’s important that you tell the world the truth. It’s not your truth. It’s THE truth. Because objective reality is a thing. Everything cannot be morally and intellectually fuzzy. There are boundaries you don’t cross. Chaos is not order. Lies are not the truth. The sun comes up in the East and sets in the West. Murder is murder. It's not that easy to find good pastrami. These are facts.
This will seem counterintuitive, but these maniacs are doing this right now because of two things: They see the opportunity because of the vacuum of leadership (weakness) and the unthinking support from the Left in the West. Secondly they recognize that the Western Left is falling apart and that what comes after will be far less accommodating. Trump, Orban, Wilders, AfD and other movements are ascendant. The Islamists are desperate to cause as much trouble as they can while they can. This is probably not the beginning of more, as dangerous as this moment is. This is the last scream before they get crushed. And as much as some of you don't like Trump, he's going to re-establish boundaries.
Israel is going to get more help. Iran is going to get no help from him. The US military is going to stop being a doormat. The insane universities promoting hatred and violating the law are going to get spanked. The people who are allowing this to happen are the Democrats. This timing is not a coincidence. How you can be against changing the political status quo as a Jew or an American is a mystery to me, but whatever. Maybe you need to see it to believe it.
As far as the charities go, that needs to change. Crap leadership in charities feathering their own nests is nothing new. It’s not a Jewish thing. It's a grifter thing across all charities which is why there are organizations that monitor this type of thing. The bigger issue is lack of true leadership and purpose to confront the moment. People need to learn how to fight and survive. The Israelis know. The diaspora in the West not so much. Also the messaging is terrible. All the Jews in media and the best we can do to make our case to the larger world is what? Where's the effort? Where's the typical genius?
They are trying to stave off more Abraham Accords participants. They are going to fail. They are about to see a major backlash in the West. Enough of this shit. Hang tough.
I spent a decade in the paid 501(c)3 industry and another decade on the volunteer side and I have seen enough to make me decide it’s time to write it out of the tax code.
Thank you for posting a donation link for Tsvi’s family. We are very involved with our local Chabad. Our rebbetzim’s good friend is the Sister in law of Tsvi. The Chabad is a small community. For other readers who may not know— the Chabad folks are thoroughly welcoming, loving, selfless, non judgmental, and positive, not to mention great educators. His loss is heartbreaking.
I am also Canadian, and I can tell you without a doubt most Canadians support Israel and the Jewish people 100%. We DO NOT support the Islamists that have been coming here and causing chaos. Canada used to be a relatively quiet (some would say boring) country, but we were always pretty happy and content. We have people here in Canada from all walks of life, all religions, and all cultures, and we all got along pretty well until recently. I am starting to see why the Islamic countries that surround Gaza will not take them in. It seems wherever these nutjobs go, they cause chaos and destruction.
I, like many Canadians (approx 75%), now are desperately waiting for our leftist milksop of a prime minister to call an election. It can't happen soon enough. He has been trailing by double digits in the polls for over a year. He knows it's over, and that's why he is stalling. Unfortunately for him (fortunately for us), he must call an election by October 2025. If it goes that long, I'll be surprised: Canadians are getting increasingly frustrated, and tempers are short. We want a change now.
On a positive note, the antisemite POS in the video giving the salute has been identified as Mai Abdulhadi. She is the owner of a Second Cup franchise that was situated in the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal (you can't make this stuff up). Second Cup did the right thing and immediately closed down her franchise and (fired her basically), which is good. People like that do NOT belong in Canada and do NOT share our values and ideals. She needs to move to Iran.
In regards to the other content in your article regarding identity politics, I agree it is unsustainable and unfair. People should be judged by their actions, hired and promoted based on merit and qualifications and treated the same in all things to do with the law. The only separation in society I support is the separation of safe places for women and girls, such as bathrooms, changing rooms, and women's sports.
Other than that, keep your chin up. Change is coming; I can feel it in the wind.
True, and out here in Nova Scotia, they still leave their doors open and their keys in the ignition. Being from Toronto and an ex-copper, it still amazes me, but life here is good, and I'll never complain. I am blessed to live in Canada and will never take it for granted.
As a Canadian, I'm so disgusted and embarrassed. Disgusted by what I've seen here in your post, about what's happened in our country and embarrassed because I follow the news in Canada and was completely mislead by the headline, so I didn't know this happened on Friday, until SUNDAY. The only reason I had a hint it was more than an anti-NATO protest was today when I saw headlines about a coffee shop being closed down (which includes a cafe inside the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal) because the franchisee was seen in videos uttering hate speech and the Nazi salute. Likely the same woman you're showing a picture of here. So, still we're not seeing reporting about the instigating incident, just sidebar stories after the fact.
And, don't even get me started about our Prime Minister. So embarrassing.
Stay safe x
I'm on the west coast (left coast). I'm keeping my fingers crossed the violence from Montreal doesn't spread here. We may be too polite to break shit where I am, but not too polite not to say stupid things. Thanks again for sharing your insight. (And the food at your friend's restaurant looks amazing. Glad you got to enjoy an evening out.)
Kim, for activity on the west coast, check out Masha Kleiner’s Substack. She also leads important events.
Here's the link to Masha's Substack: https://mashakleiner.substack.com/
Eve--
I left legacy media in 2020 and never looked back. In Canada, the CBC, our taxpayer-funded broadcaster--to the tune of $1.4B (yes, billion!) annually--repetitively recycles tropes about our country's implicit bias, racism, homophobia and transphobia. Almost every story inevitably comes down to identity. Not only is it hyperbole, but it is utterly boring. Substack and X are my go-to's for news, culture and current events. I look forward to witnessing the complete collapse of the "lamestream" media as well as the elite universities--of which I'm a graduate.
I would like to share my experience being married to someone who works for our local Jewish Federation and spends untold hours giving back to our community. The work has always been hectic and stressful but since October 7th, it is obscene! Security concerns take up an inordinate amount of precious time and brainpower and the costs to keep our community safe have gone from 7K/monthly to $100K a month. Instead of attacking the dedicated people devoted to supporting and safeguarding our Jewish community and institutions (as well as funding a myriad of social service projects in Israel), keep shining a light on the real culprits here: the millions of deranged people across the globe who are intent on destroying the Jewish homeland, its inhabitants and Jews of all over the world.
Thanks. That may be true of your husband and many thanks to him. But my criticism is justified. These orgs need to be held to account and the top tiers shouldn’t be guzzling up so much crucial funding. The orgs are failing us on so many urgent areas of need.
What will you die for?
Excuse me?!
Not you-eve- but you who are reading- what will you die for? Being a Jew?an American? A leftist? Or rightest?
What will you die for?.....since we are now in a world wide Muslim war.....what will you....the readers and commentators-die for?
As I Canadian, I will die for Canada. I will die for Canadian values and ideals. For freedom, human rights, the women's rights we have here in Canada, all of it. It is a hill worth dying on. As the other half of my family is American, and I know Americans have the same values and ideals and celebrate freedom as we do, I know they will die for the same thing and rightly so. We are not the Middle East and never will be, no matter how hard the lunatic left-wing Islamists try to slide (or should I say ooze) into our society.
Protecting my rights as a Jew and a Canadian is a hill I would die on.
Tonight in Melbourne we are expecting a ‘protest’ outside of a synagogue in a mainly Jewish area. You can bet your bottom dollar that they will all wear keffiyehs and of course masks, the latter because they want to stand up for their principles. ( not) It’s time the West banned masks from all protests.And hey, what about requiring permits? And hey, what about paying for the police presence? And hey, what about arresting anyone who makes a Nazi salute, or chants the usual rubbish? Or is that OK cos it’s ’free speech’? And hey, all you non Jews out there like me, let’s call this out again and again.
Every single day, I hear myself say “ I’m just glad my parents aren’t here to experience the Never Again , again.” As always, thanks Eve.
I think that about my grandparents every day.
I think about my parents of the Great Generation who sacrificed so much to preserve our freedom. My father was a Canadian bomber pilot with 30 missions in the RAF early in the war and mother was in the WAF and lived through the Blitz. So glad they don't see what Canada and Britain have become at least for now.
Just in time tonight. I got off twitter and had a major panic attack. Anti-Semitism seems to be everywhere I turn. It was the worst X experience and I went into total panic. I saw Ezra getting arrested, saw some evil Australian call someone a dirty Jew, saw more hate all over and my body gave out. I also saw Ritchie Torres and Douglas Murray which is awesome but it wasn’t enough. The Rabbi, the locksmith in Tennessee. The vile celebrities like Ruffalo and Eric Clapton had shit to say today. You came just in the nick of time. My goyim wife is rubbing my arm as I read her your article. This is just to much. I love how me, the crazy Trump supporter pays for your content and follows and adores Brianna Woo. But I’m the garbage. What the fuck. I need serious drugs or I need to find these “UN Protests” and kick some peoples asses. I’m losing it Eve.
I pressed publish before I caught the story about the Israeli locksmith in Memphis who was shot dead and whose murder is being investigated as a hate crime; a story that is nowhere on American MSM, only reported by Israeli media.
It is happening and we have Israel and we have a new administration that I believe has Israel’s best interests at heart. And if it doesn’t we have Israel. And to Israel we will go, where our IDF will protect us. And the world don’t get to tell us how to do that any more.
Be strong. I’m glad you have your wife to comfort you. Hug x
🤍🤍🤍
I feel I’m being crushed by this daily. It’s not just what is happening; it’s that good people don’t believe its happening or the full extent of it because they trust the mainstream media and truly don’t believe they could possibly be as insanely biased as they are.
Are they really good people?
Yes most are and I don’t think it does us any favors to suggest otherwise.. most people are operating based on the information available and unfortunately real bad guys have captured the narrative and are manipulating the good intentions of well meaning people.
Many are still living under the delusion that the mainstream media is not biased and can’t comprehend the layers of lies and distortions that are operating when talking about Israel.. and other progressive darlings, and many older liberals don’t see what’s happening in progressive communities because they don’t have direct contact with it socially or institutionally and can’t comprehend that it is not the same democratic party and media environment that we had in the 80s and 90s. My elderly parents love and support israel but still regurgitate lies they’re hearing on msn et al. They adore ‘the view’ and and are unable to recognize what’s going on.
Does a good person refuse to engage in discussion with someone they purport to love and refuse to acknowledge the humanity in those they disagree with? I’m not sure good people behave this way.
No people refusing to engage and demonizing thise who disagree with them reflexively are not acting like good people
I feel this way, too, with my best friend. She says she's informed but she only listens to anti Israel Amy Goodman's Democracy Now. She doesn't show compassion towards me, doesn't want to SEE me as her hurting Jewish best friend. After the six hostages were murdered in Rafa my Jewish community group held a vigil and I invited her to come. She didn't. She didn't even reply to my text. She couldn't see through her beliefs to come support me in my hurt. Utter disconnect. I am distancing myself from her but that doesn't feel good either.
“I believe that we have been running at an abyss via the civil liberties discourse and the “human rights” dialogue, and that the ensuing results will be the opposite of what the groupthink intends; that our liberties are taken from us by powers that be. We have set up our once liberal democracies as honey pots for totalitarian demagogues, such as the ones who want to establish a global caliphate.”— The American people have spoken and it is time to run the other direction…. And fight back hard…
I'm sorry, "faggot Zio bitch" is meant as a pejorative? You should wear it as a badge of honor. Start a faggot Zio bitch fashion line.
Back in 1981, Jewish, British-Canadian controversialist Barbara Amiel wanted to call her memoir "Fascist Bitch!", but the publicists talked her down to the more anodyne "Confessions." If leftists are going to abuse words as cudgels so they lose all meaning, you might as well own them and whack them right back!
And please pass the knafeh, yedida.
The Sinwar cosplayer in Toronto coupled with the Nazi saluting foul mouthed barrista in Montreal are truly jump the shark events that should shake the normies in both those cities out of their doldrums. But then most of our media are currently downplaying this so we'll see. Thank you Eve Barlow for all of your work. And please excuse my bad English.
You are on fire. And I’m here for it. Thank you for your service 💙🇮🇱💪🏼
People don’t know this is happening because the MSM has demonized X to the extent that people trash it without ever looking at it. And now that Elon is on Trump’s team, even more. I tell people to move to X and they refuse.
I personally despise Elon Musk and have every reason to want to leave a platform that has profited from hate speech and algorithmic manipulation towards me, but I don't because I believe it's the one place with the reach it has in which speech is not being suppressed.
Anyone who has spent any amount of time around a Chabad Rabbi knows that they are essentially the human equivalent of unicorns: they are purely good and innocent and exist for the sole purpose of doing and being goodness. Chabad Rabbis are called shaliah, they are emissaries of G-d on earth. They are here only to bring Light into the world. There is fury among the Angels at the evil of this.
Baruch Dayan HaEmet
May his memory always be for a blessing.
Eve's latest gem touches on so many issues and themes I was hesitant to comment other than to hit "Like" and enjoy my Monday morning coffee. I also enjoy and find encouragement in the many intelligent and supportive comments Eve receives on Blacklisted. So in that vein and perhaps to add a different sort of comment on a topic not directly addressed by Eve but tangential to her comment about identity politics and how it pervades the art and entertainment world, same is true for women's sports. This topic is close to me because one of my nieces residing in California is a competitive college volleyball athlete. There is a reason why men never complain when a transman attempts to compete with men, if it happens at all. We never hear of a transman, born a biological woman, competing against men in a swimming event, volleyball, basketball, or any sport. So why is it always women who complain about a transwoman, born a biological man, entering their space. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the reason isn’t because men are more tolerant of diversity or of trans athletes. The reason is so obvious it doesn’t need explanation.
I had this discussion at Shabbat dinner this week. It is abundantly obvious why.
Once you see, you cannot unsee. And then nothing looks the same ever again. And that is why it’s important that you tell the world the truth. It’s not your truth. It’s THE truth. Because objective reality is a thing. Everything cannot be morally and intellectually fuzzy. There are boundaries you don’t cross. Chaos is not order. Lies are not the truth. The sun comes up in the East and sets in the West. Murder is murder. It's not that easy to find good pastrami. These are facts.
This will seem counterintuitive, but these maniacs are doing this right now because of two things: They see the opportunity because of the vacuum of leadership (weakness) and the unthinking support from the Left in the West. Secondly they recognize that the Western Left is falling apart and that what comes after will be far less accommodating. Trump, Orban, Wilders, AfD and other movements are ascendant. The Islamists are desperate to cause as much trouble as they can while they can. This is probably not the beginning of more, as dangerous as this moment is. This is the last scream before they get crushed. And as much as some of you don't like Trump, he's going to re-establish boundaries.
Israel is going to get more help. Iran is going to get no help from him. The US military is going to stop being a doormat. The insane universities promoting hatred and violating the law are going to get spanked. The people who are allowing this to happen are the Democrats. This timing is not a coincidence. How you can be against changing the political status quo as a Jew or an American is a mystery to me, but whatever. Maybe you need to see it to believe it.
As far as the charities go, that needs to change. Crap leadership in charities feathering their own nests is nothing new. It’s not a Jewish thing. It's a grifter thing across all charities which is why there are organizations that monitor this type of thing. The bigger issue is lack of true leadership and purpose to confront the moment. People need to learn how to fight and survive. The Israelis know. The diaspora in the West not so much. Also the messaging is terrible. All the Jews in media and the best we can do to make our case to the larger world is what? Where's the effort? Where's the typical genius?
Good post.
"This is the last scream before they get crushed." This is what I am hopeful for too, and why I feel relief about the election.
They are trying to stave off more Abraham Accords participants. They are going to fail. They are about to see a major backlash in the West. Enough of this shit. Hang tough.
I spent a decade in the paid 501(c)3 industry and another decade on the volunteer side and I have seen enough to make me decide it’s time to write it out of the tax code.
Thank you for this.
Thank you for posting a donation link for Tsvi’s family. We are very involved with our local Chabad. Our rebbetzim’s good friend is the Sister in law of Tsvi. The Chabad is a small community. For other readers who may not know— the Chabad folks are thoroughly welcoming, loving, selfless, non judgmental, and positive, not to mention great educators. His loss is heartbreaking.
I am also Canadian, and I can tell you without a doubt most Canadians support Israel and the Jewish people 100%. We DO NOT support the Islamists that have been coming here and causing chaos. Canada used to be a relatively quiet (some would say boring) country, but we were always pretty happy and content. We have people here in Canada from all walks of life, all religions, and all cultures, and we all got along pretty well until recently. I am starting to see why the Islamic countries that surround Gaza will not take them in. It seems wherever these nutjobs go, they cause chaos and destruction.
I, like many Canadians (approx 75%), now are desperately waiting for our leftist milksop of a prime minister to call an election. It can't happen soon enough. He has been trailing by double digits in the polls for over a year. He knows it's over, and that's why he is stalling. Unfortunately for him (fortunately for us), he must call an election by October 2025. If it goes that long, I'll be surprised: Canadians are getting increasingly frustrated, and tempers are short. We want a change now.
On a positive note, the antisemite POS in the video giving the salute has been identified as Mai Abdulhadi. She is the owner of a Second Cup franchise that was situated in the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal (you can't make this stuff up). Second Cup did the right thing and immediately closed down her franchise and (fired her basically), which is good. People like that do NOT belong in Canada and do NOT share our values and ideals. She needs to move to Iran.
In regards to the other content in your article regarding identity politics, I agree it is unsustainable and unfair. People should be judged by their actions, hired and promoted based on merit and qualifications and treated the same in all things to do with the law. The only separation in society I support is the separation of safe places for women and girls, such as bathrooms, changing rooms, and women's sports.
Other than that, keep your chin up. Change is coming; I can feel it in the wind.
I remember when I was growing up I used to hear about how people in Canada didn't lock their doors because their neighborhoods were so safe.
True, and out here in Nova Scotia, they still leave their doors open and their keys in the ignition. Being from Toronto and an ex-copper, it still amazes me, but life here is good, and I'll never complain. I am blessed to live in Canada and will never take it for granted.